Deng Xinhai

Deng Xinhai (6 April 1946-13 June 1975) was a Chinese communist who was a member of the Chinese Red Guards and a loyalist of Mao Zedong.

Biography
Deng Xinhai was born in Tiandang in the northern parts of China, and was a member of the Chinese Communist Party since the age of 17. He volunteered to join the Chinese Red Guards in 1967 at the age of 21, becoming a leader and a propagandist who posted propaganda pictures and led rallies across China, and he became a staunch Mao Zedong loyalist.

During the Cultural Revolution and its purges of 1966 to 1976, Deng Xinhai became one of the major leaders of the Red Guards in their suppression of all anti-Red sentiment within China. But his ideas of promotion that he sought were seen as arrogant and jealous and Premier Mao Zedong, who wanted to get rid of decadent ideas, had Deng Xinhai shot.